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Inventory management

Note
The Inventory management menu item is only available to FoD Administrators. To check who the administrators are for your customer number, use the Contact function described in Contact. For more information, see Becoming an administrator.

Inventory management is most useful for business partners and distributors who sell Lenovo Features on Demand upgrades to customers. The Inventory management page allows you to keep track of the FoD purchases you’ve made and which authorization codes you have allocated to your customers.

The inventory management page is shown in Figure 1. The page has two primary functions:

  • The top half of the page allows you to manage the allocation of FoD authorization codes to your customers. See Allocating your FoD inventory to your customers.

  • The bottom half of the page provides advanced one-off functions you may need under special circumstances:

    • Allows you to convert FoD authorization codes you previously received in paper form from the Lenovo (or IBM) factory into electronic form so that they can then be managed by this Inventory management system. See Converting a paper authorization code to electronic.

    • Allows you to take an authorization code that has greater than one entitlement associated with it, and split it into multiple authorization codes, each with only 1 entitlement. Performing this action is useful if you plan on allocating those authorization codes to multiple customers. See Split an authorization code.

Figure 1. Inventory management window
Inventory management window